# Cloud hosting for enterprise buyers: what AI models recommend, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Asked as "cloud hosting provider" and as "infrastructure-as-a-service cloud", six framings each, to fourteen models with search on, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/cloud/cloud-hosting/enterprise

**Standing:** Amazon Web Services leads with 45% of first choices; verdict clear leader. 51 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [Amazon Web Services](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/amazon-web-services/index.md) | 45% | 13% | 68 |
| 2 | [Microsoft Azure](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/microsoft-azure/index.md) | 41% | 10% | 59 |
| 3 | [Oracle Cloud Infrastructure](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/oracle-cloud-infrastructure/index.md) | 8% | 9% | 34 |
| 6 | [DigitalOcean Droplets](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/digitalocean-droplets/index.md) | 2% | 63% | 19 |
| 7 | [Google Cloud](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/google-cloud/index.md) | 0% | 16% | 61 |
| 8 | [IBM](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/ibm/index.md) | 0% | 8% | 25 |
| 9 | [Azure](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/azure/index.md) | 0% | 20% | 10 |
| 12 | [Alibaba Cloud](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/alibaba-cloud/index.md) | 0% | 29% | 14 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 65 products named; products with the same share are tied, and the order among them carries no meaning. The table lists those with at least 10 labels.

## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt

- Claude Haiku 4.5: Amazon Web Services; alternatives Google Cloud, IBM, Microsoft Azure
- GPT-5.4 mini: Amazon Web Services; alternatives Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure; alternatives Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- Perplexity Sonar: Microsoft Azure; alternatives Amazon Web Services, Cloudflare, Google Cloud
- Grok 4.20: Amazon Web Services; alternatives Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- Mistral Small: Amazon Web Services; alternatives Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Amazon Web Services; alternatives Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- Llama 4 Maverick: Amazon Web Services; alternatives Kamatera, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure; alternatives Google Cloud, IBM, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- Kimi K2: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure; alternatives Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Amazon Web Services; alternatives Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure
- MiniMax M2.5: no first choice
- GPT-6 Luna: Amazon Web Services; alternatives Azure, Google Cloud
- Muse Glimmer 30B: Amazon Web Services; alternatives Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure

## Sources the answers cite

69 of 84 answers came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- atlantic.net: 23 answers, 30 citations
- cloudhosting.io: 15 answers, 17 citations
- aws.amazon.com: 13 answers, 23 citations
- cloud.google.com: 12 answers, 17 citations
- oracle.com: 10 answers, 23 citations
- alibabacloud.com: 10 answers, 10 citations
- gane.ai/index: 10 answers, 10 citations
- azure.microsoft.com: 9 answers, 13 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://atlantic.net/cloud-platform/best-enterprise-hosting-providers (19 answers)
- https://cloudhosting.io/best/enterprise-cloud-hosting (15 answers)
- https://gane.ai/index/it/cloud/cloud-hosting/enterprise (10 answers)
- https://alibabacloud.com/en/knowledge/cprice/aws-vs-azure-vs-google-cloud?_p_lc=1 (9 answers)
- https://thectoclub.com/tools/best-cloud-service-providers (8 answers)
- https://guideflow.com/blog/cloud-hosting (7 answers)
- https://railway.com/guides/secure-cloud-hosting-for-compliance (7 answers)
- https://docs.cloud.google.com/docs/get-started/aws-azure-gcp-service-comparison (6 answers)
- https://intl.cloud.tencent.com/techpedia/148160?lang=en (6 answers)
- https://zdnet.com/article/best-cloud-hosting (6 answers)

## Warned against

- DigitalOcean Droplets: 12 of 19 labels negative. "DigitalOcean lacks the depth of services, global infrastructure, and enterprise support required by large enterprises" (Mistral Small, negative prompt)
- Google Cloud: 10 of 61 labels negative. "GCP Vertex Gemini API elevated errors/degraded performance in several Asia-region endpoints beginning 13 Nov 2024, persisting for nearly 19 hours." (Muse Glimmer 30B, negative prompt)
- Amazon Web Services: 9 of 68 labels negative. "hyperscalers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud can introduce layers of operational and financial complexity" (Llama 4 Maverick, negative prompt)
- Microsoft Azure: 6 of 59 labels negative. "hyperscalers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud can introduce layers of operational and financial complexity" (Llama 4 Maverick, negative prompt)

## Movement since October 2026

Floor: 11 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat.
Same leader: Amazon Web Services at 45%.

- Azure: 6% to 0%, −6. Inside the floor by 5 points · rank 3 → 9 of 65.
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: 4% to 8%, +4. Inside the floor by 7 points · rank 4 → 3 of 65.
- Amazon Web Services: 42% to 45%, +3. Inside the floor by 8 points · rank 1 of 65, unchanged.
- Microsoft Azure: 38% to 41%, +3. Inside the floor by 8 points · rank 2 of 65, unchanged.
- DigitalOcean Droplets: 2% to 2%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 9 → 6 of 65.
- Google Cloud: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 10 → 7 of 65.
- IBM: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 11 → 8 of 65.
- Alibaba Cloud: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 41 → 12 of 65.

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.